From The Gay & Lesbian Review, a review of The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire by Shadi Bartsch; heroes in the culture wars: A review of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture by Arlene Stein; a review of Tennessee Williams: Memoirs; “Kinsey and I thought very much alike”: An interview with Gore Vidal, author of Point to Point Navigation; proof that poetry can be about assholes: a review of The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952 and Collected Poems, 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg, and I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan.
From The Liberal, poetry was for Bertolt Brecht something he did on the side, almost a vice, a peccadillo. He didn't want it to be his living, but was helpless to prevent it from remaining his primary expression. From The New Criterion, The Heraclitus of New Hampshire: A review of The Notebooks of Robert Frost; let's do it, let's fall in luff: A review of A Worldly Country by John Ashbery, Forty-Five by Frieda Hughes, Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong, Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel, and Selected Poems: Expanded Edition by Robert Lowell.
Roger Kimball on why the art world is a disaster. Art on the cutting edge? Brigitte Werneburg asks what contemporariness means in the artworld today. A review of Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson. From Smithsonian, a photo contest attracted thousands of photographers from 86 nations. Her are the winners. An excerpt from No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites. A review of An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession by Jay Bochner.
From Print, high-flying artist? Man of the streets? Whoever Banksy wants to be, he’s keeping it a secret for now; amateurs taking over? Don't panic—DIY design culture might just have something to teach us; infusing an old culture with a complex tangle of Western influences, Lithuania’s PetPunk is helping forge a sensibility for the New Europe; and what happens when Miami meets Japanese culture? Lots of toys, parades, and playgrounds. Behold the power of Friends With You! From Resurgence, a review of Design Like You Give a Damn by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr.
